"Two common goals of these cosmetic 'normalizing' surgeries on children’s genitals are to enable #heterosexual penetrative intercourse, and to help the child #conform to #gender and sexual norms"
The #AmericanTaliban members of the AZ Supreme Court ruled it's pre-Civil War, pre-statehood, pre-women can vote law that bans abortion & will send doctors & anyone that helps to jail, can go into effect
Putting aside the callousness of the denial of #BodilyAutonomy to women [yeah. I know. Hard to do.] But seriously, #Trump is basically in #racist#blackface in this video. WTAF?
support #ALL fat #women, not just the ones with hourglass figures and smooth skin. support fat women with apron bellies, with small boobs, with flat butts, with visible rolls, with arm flaps, with thick necks, with no jawline, with “multiple” chins. support fat women with big shoulders, fat women who’s waists don’t go in, who have stretch marks on their armpits and arms and stomach, not just on their chest and thighs or butts or “attractive” places.
A big part of the anti-abortion movement fervently believes in fetal personhood (explainer:http://tinyurl.com/bdeh5emf) & AL, AZ, GA, KS & MI now have personhood laws
Happiness with Circumcision Status, Not Status Itself, Predicts Genital Self-Image in a Geographically Diverse Sample
Selino & Krawczyk, 2023 Archives of Sexual Behavior
"Participants who were circumcised tended to have less happiness with their circumcision status than non-circumcised participants regardless of region of birth."
In supporting a 16-week ban w/exceptions, Donald Trump appears to be trying to satisfy social #conservatives who want to further restrict #abortion access & voters who want more modest limits.
"The tragic attack on our troops at Tower 22 in Jordan is a stark reminder of how those in uniform might give their lives at any moment in service to our country. Two of the three soldiers killed were #women. They lost their lives for a country that is moving to restrict the rights of all women — including those in uniform." #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3Orx3vS
"Undermining our female service members’ physical & mental well-being could have disastrous consequences.
...those who defend America should not — while on the front lines or training to defeat our nation’s enemies — also have to fight for reproductive care and #BodilyAutonomy. That is more than a matter of principle. It’s a matter of national security." #GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3Orx3vS
As soon as #EJeanCarroll heard the verdict on Fri — $83.3M in #defamation#damages against #Trump — a world of possibility opened before her: How to use the money?
…It could take years before she sees the money, as Trump…will appeal, but she is already considering how she might use the money….
“I’m not going to waste a cent of this,” she said. “We’re going to do something good with it.”
“This win, more than any other thing, when we needed it the most — after we lost the rights over our own bodies in many states — we put out our flag in the ground on this one. Women won this one. I think it bodes well for the future.”
Reproductive Responsibility and the Racial Biopolitics of Choice
Sara Alavi, Brown Undergraduate Journal of Public Health
"the rhetoric of responsibility and self-government in legislative framings of reproduction constructs a rigid set of standards of fitness to reproduce. In effect, these standards simultaneously reflect and produce racial and gendered inequalities that pathologize Blackness and strip women of their bodily autonomy."
My artwork is part of the Dakotans for Health fundraising auction. Help us regain bodily autonomy in South Dakota and add to your art collection by bidding on my painting!
Respecting young adults (aka teens) means you don't criminalize their choice of romantic partner. Nor do you put them on a sex offender registry for life with no possibility of appeal for the heinous crime of photographing their own body.
Woman’s miscarriage leads to ‘abuse of corpse’ case before grand jury
Brittany Watts, 33, was overcome with emotion Thursday afternoon after learning her case is moving forward. Watts is charged with felony abuse of a corpse, accused of trying to plunge a toilet after having a miscarriage delivery at 22 weeks while using the restroom.
Investigators said they found a baby stuck in a toilet at Watts’ home on Sept. 22.
“She said she felt the baby come out and there was a big splash,” said Det. Nick Carney, with the Warren Police Department.
Forensic pathologist Dr. George Sterbenz testified an autopsy found no injury to the fetus, and that the unborn fetus had died before passing through the birth canal. He said Watts’ medical records showed she visited the hospital twice before the delivery.
Yes, women want pockets. But not just any "pockets." Women want BIG pockets... HUGE pockets... PRACTICAL pockets that can actually hold all kinds of things-- like wallets, cell phones, hairbrushes, Kotex pads, magic totems, and/or baby dragons.😏
Not the tiny ones we have now, the ones we can barely fit the ends of our fingers and a couple of coins into.
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
"Butler argues that feminism must ally itself with other movements “since phobic violence against bodies is part of what joins antihomophobic, antiracist, feminist, trans, and intersex activism.” She embraces questions which disturb the feminist movement, asserting that continual questioning is itself a feminist act."